Zayah
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 97.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 65 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 835since 2001
Zayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zayah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,459 | 44 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,775 | 61 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,549 | 44 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zayah! It came in at #9,351, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zayah is popular in 2001
No state had 5 or more girls named Zayah in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zayah
- 684 spots since 2024 (#2,775 → #3,459)
- 368 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #3,459)
- 246 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,459)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2021 at #2,638 (65 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,244 girls born in 2021 were named Zayah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.7% of all girls named Zayah (432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 83 | #8,520 (2007) | #11,374 |
| 2010s | 432 | #2,713 (2017) | #4,229 |
| 2020s | 320 | #2,638 (2021) | #3,077 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zayah in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 180,062 of them was named Zayah, which outranked 48.0% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,758Zuleyka11
- #8,758Zyah11
- #8,758Zyla11
- #9,351Zayah10
- #9,351Aanika10
- #9,351Abbigaile10
- #9,351Abbye10
- #10,102Aailyah9
- #10,102Aaleyah9
- #10,102Aalijah9
Tied with 750 names at #9,351; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.